Inhaling device for use in the treatment of asthmatic, catarrhal, and other affections



A. P. STOKES.

INHALING DEVICE FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMATIC, CATARRHAL, AND OTHER AFFECTIONS.

' APPLICATION FILED AUG, I0. I92].

1,429,546. Patented Sept. 19, 1922.

//v VENTOR Patented Sept; 19, 1922.

YATES ALFRED EARKER STOKES, OF ST. HELIEES,

rarest JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS, ASSIGNOR TC RICHARD PALMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INHALING DEVICE FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMATIC, GATARRHAL, AND OTHER AFFECTIONS.

Serial No. 491380 (GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT OF IMAROH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. I, 1313.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED PARKER S'roiiics, a subject of the King otl Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 3 Green Street, St. Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands, have invented new and useful Improved Inhaling Device for Use in the lreatment oit Asthmatic, Catarrhal, and Other Affections (for which I have filed an application in Great Britain December 1.0, 1914, patented and bearing No. 23,870), of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved device for use in the treatment of asthmatic, catarrhal and other affections, by nasal inhalation.

In the accompanying drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively longitudinal and transverse vertical sections illustrating an appliance constructed according to my in vention; Fig. 3 being a face or outer-end view.

The device consists of a receptacle a adapted for holding medicaments, antiseptics or the like, or absorbent material charged therewith; the said receptacle or reservoir having an opening exposed to the atmosphere and being formed with two tubular horns 7) adapted for insertion in the nostrils of the patient, the device being thereby held in position. In order the better to maintain it in position, the horns Z) may converge and lightly engage with the membrane which separates the nostrils.

The device is preferably composed of indiarubber, gutta-percha or other soft and yielding material, and may be varied in shape; but if it be desired to ensure the whole of the air, inhaled by the patient by way of the nose, passing through the medicamental substance or preparation with which the reservoir a is charged, the tubular horns 7) should be so formed as to fully occupy the nostrils.

I claim 1. An inhaling device comprising a yieldable body portion of substantially ring like structure, said body portion being hollow and interrupted at one side to provide a pair of horns closely spaced apart at their outer ends to yieldably receive the nasal membrane therebetween for supporting the device in the nose,'said ring like structure being open at its outer side remote from said interruption to receive a medicament carrying vehicle and admit the distribution of the vehicle toward and into the opposite horns and permit the passage of air independently through the horns.

2. An inhaling device comprising a ring like hollow structure split at one side to receive the nasal membrane for supporting the structure in the nose, said ring like structure having an elongated opening in its outer wall remote from said split and leading into the branches of the structure at opposite sides of the slit, said elongated opening providing a receptacle for a quantity of medicated absorbent and permitting the packing of the absorbent into the outer ends of said branches of the ring like structure. ALFRED PARKER STOKES. 

